In his editorial, Do the Right Thing, Kenney concludes, “It takes guts to create libraries that support the needs of all our students. It takes even more guts to support collections that may attract fierce opposition. But that just happens to be our job.”
I cannot tell you how many times I have been told that [...]
Had a wonderful time at Harry Potter 4 (even though we could hear small children crying, but hey, this is so clearly not a movie for small children, and what were they doing out so late?). Sandy kept asking “Where’s Ralph Fiennes?” I hope Fiennes is on good terms with children in his family, because [...]
I heard a voice from the past when I read Michael Golrick’s comments to Michael Stephens in this TechSource interview: “At the same time, I do not disagree with what I see as the underlying thought behind of L2: excellent customer service.”
The voice was that of Marvin Scilken, a beloved librarian pioneer who for forty [...]
For anyone interested in converting FRL’s style template for the forthcoming blog (test site here) to a liquid design, here is the ‘Classy’ Theme CSS and the Base-weblog.css. I had been using another design, but saw another library blog using my selection and decided we simply CANNOT wear the same dress to the party! I [...]
Sometime in the next four days I’m migrating this blog. It should be ALMOST seamless, using the same website, freerangelibrarian.com, with one exception: unless there are strenuous objections, I am streamlining so there is one RSS feed, version 2.0, full text, with comments and support for media enclosures, and the old RSS feed filenames will [...]
I started at 8:30, and by 9 p.m. I had completed a fresh install of Movable Type 3.2. It probably would have gone slower as an upgrade, but for some time I’ve been planning to move FRL’s installation onto freerangelibrarian.com, part of a longer-range plan to mothball bluehighways.com’s site and redirect requests for bluehighways to [...]
We’ve been in Santa Fe visiting my mother and enjoying a brief break. I feel like The Thing That Ate New Mexico. I don’t regret a mouthful–the shrimp diablo at Los Mayos still lingers in memory, fat fresh shrimp in a creamy chipotle-infused sauce–but The Time Has Come, The Walrus Said.
So herein lie the New [...]
